December 19, 2025

The Download: China’s dying EV batteries, and why AI doomers are doubling down

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their batteries. In the past decade, China has seen an EV boom, thanks in part to government support. Buying an electric…

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Y Combinator-backed Luca aims to optimize retail prices at enterprise scale

April 27, 2023

Luca, a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Y Combinator (Luca was in Y Combinator’s winter 2023 class), Soma Capital and angel investors. Luca was co-founded by Tanvi Surti and Yonah Mann, who worked together […]

Y Combinator-backed Luca aims to optimize retail prices at enterprise scale by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Appeals court rules in favor of Meta in antitrust case from State AGs

April 27, 2023

Meta has won an antitrust lawsuit that pitted the tech giant against dozens of state attorneys general, led by New York, who had alleged Meta had illegally maintained monopoly power in the social networking market through its acquisitions of photo-sharing app Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, and that it gained further power through […]

Appeals court rules in favor of Meta in antitrust case from State AGs by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows

April 27, 2023

When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. But as the use cases began to take shape last year, the company began pushing AI-driven semantic search. With the rise of LLMs in the public consciousness, companies are beginning to see the value of vector […]

Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch